Subj : Executing mail upon arrival
To   : Bill McGarrity
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Nov 03 2016 07:34 pm


03 Nov 16 13:46, you wrote to me:

 AP>> from what I am reading th !@ tells it to ! Execute immediately and @
 AP>> open a window and hide it to do it.

 ml>> you don't need to execute your toss script immediately after each
 ml>> file is received... think about this for a second... if you receive
 ml>> four PKTs, and you use the ! you're telling binkd to fire your toss
 ml>> script four times... why? you really don't need to do that... just
 ml>> have binkd fire the toss once after that one mail session is complete
 ml>> and let it toss all four PKTs at once... the thing about @ is
 ml>> personal preference but i've never used it... i want to see the
 ml>> evidence of the tossing being done... that's how i know that things
 ml>> are still working properly...

 BM> Easy solution... just create a semaphore.... poof!

that's actually what i do on my main system with the script executed only at 
specific times plus the script has a check in it so that it doesn't execute 
more than once... yes, it does this by creating a ""running"" semaphore ;)

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
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